Heart Health

Practicing yoga for an hour and a half three times a week can make your heart healthier in just six weeks, says recent research from the Yale University School of Medicine.

Weight Control

Two recent studies show that yoga helps with weight loss and maintenance. The second study found that people who regularly practiced yoga and meditation, exercised, and watched their diet lost more weight than those who exercised and ate a healthy diet but skipped yoga. Sleeplessness Yoga can calm the whirling of the mind, which is helpful for insomniacs, who often have elevated levels of mental and emotional arousal, says Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD, an instructor in division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard.                                                                                                                       Anxiety and Depression Yogic breathing techniques are powerful tools for alleviating serious anxiety and depression and neutralizing the negative effects of stress, says recent research in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.